U.S. Commercial Real Estate Chartbook June 2025

Public Market Signals for Private CRE Investors: Monitoring Pricing in an Uncertain Market

Q1 2025 Investment Grade Private Credit Review & Outlook

Q1 2025 Taxable Municipals Market Review and Outlook

Q1 2025 Emerging Markets Review and Outlook

EM Sovereigns Amid U.S. Tariff Policy Resiliency Study – May 2025

The U.S. Labor Market: Caution or Confidence?

Tariff Impacts and Infrastructure Debt’s Resilience

Short Duration Q1 Recap, Portfolio Actions & Outlook

Deglobalization. What’s Next?

Cold Storage: A Niche Property Heating Up

Q4 2024 Investment Grade Private Credit Review & Outlook

Relative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation – Q2 2025

QT or Not QT? – Part Two

A Return to Uncertainty

4Q24 Investment Grade Corporate Market Review and Outlook

The Return of Mercantilism? Shifting Goalposts on Trade

Emerging Markets Debt Restructurings: A Year of Resilience and Innovation

Private Debt Opportunities in Emerging Markets: Insights for Building Insurance Portfolios

Short Duration Q4 Recap, Portfolio Actions & Outlook

Q4 2024 Emerging Markets Review & Outlook

U.S. Housing Chartbook January 2025

Thematic Engagement: 2024 Scope 3 Emissions

Scope 3 emissions are becoming increasingly important as issuers face growing pressure to report and reduce these emissions. In our latest report, we examine how issuers across public fixed-income and private credit sectors are tackling Scope 3 data challenges and setting decarbonization targets.

Trump 2.0: Back to the Future?

By the end of this month, President Trump will enter the White House for his second term with an economic backdrop quite different from that of his first term. While the policies he advocates for are of a similar style this time around, the entirely different economic situation mean that those policies may have a different effect than they would have had in his first term. 

Episode 269: Asset-Based Finance (ABF): Building Resilient Portfolios for Insurers

Join host Stewart Foley on the InsuranceAUM.com Podcast for a deep dive into private structured credit (private ABF) and its role in insurance portfolios.

2025 Real Estate Outlook: Tipping Point

Relative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q1 2025

Our latest Relative Value and Tactical Asset Allocation report offers our take on key markets and sectors. While we anticipate a low risk of a U.S. recession, policy uncertainty opens up a wider range of possible outcomes.

Episode 267: Real Estate Debt Markets: Finding Value in Market Dislocations

Join host Stewart Foley on the InsuranceAUM.com Podcast for insights into private real estate debt. Explore market trends, commercial mortgage yields, and the impact of inflation and migration on real estate investment strategies for insurance portfolios.

Pitfalls & Mitigants of Climate Assessment Software

Global Risks 2025: Turning Points?

M&A in 2025: Opportunity, with a side of Scrutiny

QT or Not QT?

Our macro strategists assess what rightsizing the Fed’s balance sheet in 2025 could mean for its holdings in mortgage-backed securities, Treasury notes and Treasury bills. The composition will significantly impact different asset classes, the shape of the yield curve, and the amount of new stimulus created each month.

Residential Whole Loans: Key Insights for Insurance Investors

Our new paper, "Residential Whole Loans: Key Insights for Insurance Investors," highlights the strategic advantages of this asset class, including improved underwriting standards and attractive risk-adjusted returns. 

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): Back on the EM radar

Until recently, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) sovereigns were not on the radar for most Emerging Markets investors searching for yield.  Learn why MetLife Investment Management sees an opportunity to gain exposure to the region and its respective sovereign curves in our analysis of Central and Eastern Europe. 

Investment Grade Spreads: Tighter for Longer?

As part of MetLife Investment Management’s ongoing “A World in Debt” series, we continue to explore key trends across various sectors of the financial markets. In "Investment-Grade Spreads: Tighter for Longer?”, we navigate the 'overheating' stage of the credit cycle, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the economic indicators influencing tight spreads, lessons from past overheating periods and projections for the future of credit markets. 

U.S. Commercial Real Estate Chartbook November 2024

Our latest chartbook offers a compelling overview and outlook for the current U.S. real estate market, including statistics on real estate pricing, apartment construction starts and appraisal lag. 

3Q24 Corporate Market Review & Outlook

We believe our security selection driven approach will provide enough ammunition to generate relative outperformance – just as it has throughout 2024

Election Economics

Q3 2024 Investment Grade Private Credit Review & Outlook

Q3 2024 Emerging Markets Review and Outlook

ABS: Normalizing Delinquent Behavior

With high volatility, geopolitical dynamics, the Presidential election and Federal Reserve’s course of action keeping the market on the fence, MetLife Investment Management recaps the third quarter for short duration bonds and shares our year-end outlook, sector by sector.

Ag Finance: Too Much of a Good Thing: The Paradox of Perfect Weather

Global Outlook 2025

In 2025, we believe the core question to dominate economic discussions is where the unobservable natural rate, r*, lies and when central banks should stop cutting. Find out what else our Macro Strategists think will drive marks in 2025. Read our latest Economic Monthly:

Episode 248: Why are Residential Whole Loans the Talk of the Town?

Alfred Chang is the Head of Residential Credit at MetLife Investment Management.

Relative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q4 2024

Long Duration Bonds in Public Pensions

For over 15 years, public pensions have relied on long duration investment grade bonds like US Treasuries and corporates to achieve their risk reduction goals. MetLife Investment Management’s new white paper examines the chief benefits: capital preservation, reliable cash flow and liquidity, capital efficiency, excess value returns and more. Learn all about the diverse opportunity set in our in-depth analysis, Long Duration Bonds in Public Pensions.

Rate Expectations

Read our latest Economic Monthly to find out how we think Fed Funds cuts could play out and why - despite some headwinds - there are a number of factors supporting consumer resilience.

U.S. Real Estate Chartbook

This chartbook presents a compelling snapshot of the current state of the U.S. real estate market, highlighting signs of emerging stability and solid underlying fundamentals. It reveals that certain segments, with appealing valuations and consistent demand, are exhibiting potential for substantial growth.

What, Me Worry?

The markets had their fun in the first week of August, responding to the Sahm Rule being triggered alongside perceived excess hawkishness by the FOMC. Download our latest Economic Monthly to find out why we think generalized anxieties are driving the market overreaction.

Q2 2024 Emerging Markets Review and Outlook